“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

-Albert Einstein

“I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds, which follow[s] from the advance of science.”

-Charles Darwin

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

-Carl Sagan

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

“I have sworn hostility against all forms of Tyranny over the minds of men.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

-Dalai Lama

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

-Epicurus

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

-Richard Dawkins

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

-Albert Einstein

“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.”

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

-Bertrand Russell

“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

November General Membership Meeting

Event Details

Date: November 06, 2011

Time: 10:30 AM

Location: Allentown Brew Works

Address: 812 West Hamilton Allentown, PA

Our speaker for November is Rob Boston, Assistant Director, Americans United, “The Religious Right’s War on America”Religious Right groups claim to be patriots who love the United States. But many of their policies fly in the face of traditional American values like separation of church and state, tolerance, diversity, free inquiry and the right to dissent. In this talk, Rob Boston, senior policy analyst for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will discuss his experiences over nearly 25 years tracking Religious Right groups (including attending Religious Right conferences) and will explain why the theocrats’ vision for America is wrong and must be rejected. Rob is the author of three books: “Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics” (Prometheus Books, 2000); “The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition” (Prometheus Books, 1996) and “Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State” (Prometheus Books, 1993; second edition, 2003).